REACH 2010 Promotora Community Coalition Evaluation (Rio Grande Valley, Texas)
A comprehensive diabetes prevention and control program focusing on a clinical intervention with patients and providers, prevention in the schools and the local communities, and a system and environmental change intervention through the community coalition. The Border Health Strategic Initiative (BHSI) comprehensive model was based upon the REACH 2010 community model.
Steps to a HealthierUS Initiative (Arizona)
This is a HHIS/CDC initiative. In 1998, the CRCPHP began working with community partners in four border communities, Yuma, Santa Cruz, and Cochise Counties and the Tohono O’odham Nation to develop and evaluate Border Health ¡SI¡, a comprehensive model to address diabetes prevention and control. Border Health ¡SI¡ laid the groundwork for the Steps to a Healthier Arizona Initiative, funded by the CDC to the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS), which aims to help Americans live longer, better, and healthier lives by reducing the burden of diabetes, overweight, obesity and asthma. As part of Steps, CRCPHP faculty and staff continue to work collaboratively with community partners in program development and evaluation. The CRCPHP engages in a participatory model of evaluation in which all partners engage in the process of identifying program outcomes and measures, evaluation instruments, and data collection. The CRCPHP works closely with Steps partners in the field and provides evaluation results on a regular basis to ensure that findings are integrated into program strategies. The CRCPHP also collaborates with ADHS to address national evaluation and provides technical assistance to community partners.
See Arizona Department of Health Services Steps to a Healthier Arizona Initiative
Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) Nutrition and Physical Activity (NUPA) State Plan
The ADHS NUPA evaluation project is a collaboration between the CRCPHP and ADHS to evaluate and assess the impact of the Nutrition and Physical Activity State Plan released in 2005. The project entails researching and forming an appendix of references from multiple other state nutrition and physical activity plans that would be used to revise the Arizona state plan.
In addition, an online survey aimed at key stakeholders will be circulated to determine useability and relevance of the State Plan. The data collected will then be used to update, improve, and revise the state plan. Key stakeholders are also being asked for a summary of programs targeting physical activity and nutrition to be included in a state level database.
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